I have done something like that, comparing the neighbours in one street - my Bishop family lived int he same house from 1841 to 1871, so it was interesting to see the neighbours changing, and the town growing around them.
Long before Ancestry had the census on-line, I transcribed a couple of districts in Martock, Somerset in 1841 from microfilm. Up and down the streets and lanes - you could see how families lived next door to each other, children next to elderly parents etc. If you read the description at the beginning of each district, you can work out how the streets fit together and where the EDs stopped and started. In 1841, I don't think the enumerator put the street name on each page, so you had to read the description to work out which way he was going.
When we were in Harrow-on-the-hill in 2018, I used landmarks in the census, like the pubs, the church and the Harrow School, to wander along the street and figure out where the Cole ancestors lived - I don't think many of the buildings are the same, but it was nice to see how close they lived to the school, and the pub where we stayed.
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